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Meanings of defence mechanism in English

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mecanisme de defensa

(Psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.

        ajustamentos
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        защитный механизм
        Portuguese
        mecanismo de defesa
        Spanish
        mecanismo de defensa
        Catalan
        mecanisme de defensa

        Unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.

              защитный механизм
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              Examples for "defence"
              Examples for "defence"
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              The treaty also made a future EU common defence subject to safeguards.
              The Irish Times
              2
              National's defence spokesperson Mark Mitchell today said the government should remain independent.
              Radio NZ
              3
              The region is extremely important from the country's defence point of view.
              Reuters
              4
              Recent international events should remind us of the need for strong defence.
              BBC
              5
              Civil defence officials said there had been no immediate reports of damage.
              Reuters
              1
              Long discussion of how the defense of Western Europe affects arms control.
              The new yorker
              2
              For example, the fighting season began without a new Afghan defense minister.
              Reuters
              3
              There's no possible reason left for keeping information from your defense staff.
              Anvil Gate
              4
              But the new defense budget doesn't axe a single major weapons system.
              Wired
              5
              The U.S. defense chief later mentioned the issue at his news conference.
              Reuters
              1
              It's a psychological defense mechanism, a means of coping with the unbearable.
              The panic zone
              2
              The defense mechanism wasn't a thinking being, capable of making judgment calls.
              Cold Days
              3
              Jeth rolled his eyes, sarcasm the only self- defense mechanism left to him.
              Avalon
              4
              Objective: A defense mechanism is an automatic psychological process necessary for successful adaptation.
              Pubmed
              5
              He was irritating because that was what he used as a defense mechanism.
              Diagnosis: danger
              1
              I didn't know what I was doing; it was like a defense reaction.
              Feminist dot com
              2
              Our results support the involvement of VvWRKY33 in the defense reaction of grapevine against different pathogens.
              Pubmed
              3
              In many interactions of plants with pathogens, the primary host defense reaction is accompanied by plant cell death at the site of infection.
              Pubmed
              4
              Acute inflammation can elicit a defense reaction known as the acute-phase response (APR) that is crucial for reestablishing homeostasis in the host.
              Pubmed
              5
              Bresler refers to tic as a motor reaction to original mental shock, so that it is in fact a psychic defense reaction of expression.
              The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
              1
              Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) is a plant hormone important for the mediation of signals for developmental processes and defence reactions in higher plants.
              Pubmed
              Usage of defence mechanism in English
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              Some of these metabolites play important roles in the plant's defence mechanism.
              Pubmed
              2
              Did he avoid pining to be free as a kind of defence mechanism?
              The Guardian
              3
              Narcissism is fundamentally an evolved version of the splitting defence mechanism.
              The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
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              I have this defence mechanism, this survival tactic of playing dumb.
              The Guardian
              5
              Sigmund Freud described it as a primitive defence mechanism used to resolve emotional conflict.
              The Irish Times
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              This is a well known defence mechanism in nations peripheral.
              Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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              It may be an instinct, a kind of defence mechanism for dealing with shock.'
              Voices
              8
              We do not talk about it, it's a defence mechanism, we lock it away.
              The Guardian
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              But the female supplies the eggs with a defence mechanism.
              BBC
              10
              A defence mechanism, that's what the big bloke had been shouting about, wasn't it.
              Pack animals
              11
              Rihanna had an acceptance speech where she talked about how fashion was her defence mechanism.
              Radio NZ
              12
              It's partly a defence mechanism against the fannish hysteria that increasingly attends his every move.
              The Guardian
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              She was the model for the island's self- defence mechanism.
              iD
              14
              The target's inner self- defence mechanism will always spot this.
              Meltdown
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              Thus, type 2 immunity can be mobilized as an effective tissue-level defence mechanism against cancer.
              Pubmed
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              Newt did so with a thumbs-up gesture, still employing selective silence as a defence mechanism.
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